Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

Earworms Loc: Sacramento, California

Why cannot someone, just for a change post something good? Like 21 reasons why sex is good for you? LOL

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

Feel free to do so. And isn't it "good" to give such good advice on health, as in the article.? The "good news" is that health is improved so much by cutting down on the poisonous sucrose and even more poisonous high fructose variants.

SBW

Good idea. Why don't you do that?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Only 21?

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

Sugar won't kill you but it will rob you of a better life!!!

exakta56 Loc: Orford,New Hampshire

The Wal-Mart Super store in my neck of the woods offers a huge selection of meat products, and also frozen fish from other parts of the world. The need to disclose the country of origin has been lobbied out , so it is your guess as to where it came from. Much foreign fish products are not recommended for eating because of questionable breeding methods. Your health is possible at risk in this.
The section of fresh fish offered at this Wal-Mart is limited to two or three packages of fish. That's it. On the other hand, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of packaged goodies ranging from cookies to stuff packed full of one or another form of SUGAR that you and never even heard of twenty years ago. Men and mostly women abound, waddling or using the store's electric carts to reach these shelves of fat producing crap products. You have seen what I'm talking about. To sum up: the largest store in the country offers very little in healthy food products , yet has an overwhelming array of sugar packed junk food. Why? That's where the money is!

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I am not sure why the put down of Walmart but ALL food stores where I shop, Albertson's, Vons's, Safeway and others seem to sell pretty much the exact things but in lower selections of the same products. I agree with you about the fish products and do not purchase the types of fish you are talking about that I feel were raised in sewer water of Vietnam and other countries. I try to buy fish marked as, Fresh Ocean Caught, or similar. Sure there are lots of packages of cookies, cereal, breads and anything else for sale that can be harmful to us in the stores but there are also vegetables and fruits and products that are good for us. Why demonize what is for sale and a particular store (that is what Liberal Democrats do) when in reality it is up to the shoppers to decide what we want to buy. Also, sugar in proper quantity is not necessarily bad for us. It is when we, the consumer user, abuse sugar products that there is a health risk. Please let's put the blame where it belongs, right smack on ourselves rather than on a particular store. The fact that I buy 5 pounds from sugar at Safeway rather than Walmart does not make much of a difference to my body or yours.

Dennis

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

But it can cause or make worse diseases that can kill you.

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

Dljen already fills the bill for the first 3 sugar categories!! But the burger helps wash down the sugar!! (May have to wait awhile for the 4th category, though.)

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

Maybe we should stick to the natural sugars, like the kind they use in beer?

exakta56 Loc: Orford,New Hampshire

To dennis2416 and others: I used Wal-Mart specifically due to their huge market share and the fact that they could establish food trends by their sheer size which might lean towards promoting a healthier food alternative.
Yes, you are right: the individual is ultimately responsible for his or her actions and choices. If that was the whole story, what a wonderfully simple world it would be! Back in the 30s, 40s and 50s nearly every popular magazine had page after page of cigarette ads with 'doctors' and movie stars proclaiming the virtues of their favorite smoke. The eventual prohibition of those ads along with health info on the packs put some balance into the mix. Yep..people are responsible for their own actions and they are also susceptible to propaganda, repeated and incessant jingos, advertisements and general hoopla. Perhaps you are not, but a helluva lot of people are.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

I never limited it to 21, but then I am a Scorpio.
"The Surgeon General has determined that, 'An Excess of Sex in Laboratory Mice, creates an Excess of Laboratory Mice.' !!"

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

I'm waiting for The Surgeon General to determine that birth cause death..

SBW

You would certainly be on to something if it were not for the demographics of the average WAL-Mart food shopper. In short they don't eat healthy. Probably do not care to. I saw in your other post that identifying source of seafood or product had been lobbied out. I see you live in NH and that really surprises me especially given the number of fisheries in your area. I spend most of my time on the Gulf Coast and in that part of the world it has not been lobbied out. If anything the regulations have become even stronger. Any seafood fresh or frozen that is sold here has to have the source posted in large block letters. Even if you are a road side vendor. And you better not let them catch you violating that. Interesting.